Quotes About Certainty

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

At this particular moment, there's just no question about it.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. -The Escalator, A Love Story

I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

what you need. That spark you feel when an idea comes to you—This could work. I can actually make this happen!—is Western privilege as well. It may not be certainty, but it's hope, and if you think that's worthless, try living in a place where nobody has it. Worse still, try getting a decent hotel room there.

But the corner is relentless and certain. It can't be underestimated. It can't be appeased with pretense or melodrama or the easy fatalism of youth. It waits. It works. It finishes whatever it begins in its own time, in its own way.

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

No está permitido dudar. No está permitido decir la verdad. No está permitido rectificar

logic, as the TFN knew, was often no more than a way of going wrong with confidence

logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

wonder admits to the existence of mystery...recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth.

Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously. He stared at the crucifix, balancing between utter belief and utter disbelief.

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if to constantly remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?

The great minds of the century. So absolutely convinced they're on the road to somewhere.

Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.

Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity.

She was that age. Whatever she said burst like genius into centuries of silence. Whatever she touched was the first stroke of its kind. Whatever she believed was not formed by faith but carved from certainty. Whatever she thought was the first time such a thought had ever been thunk.

Well, maybe I use the wrong word in English. I mean that for Lamin the future is as certain as the past.

Prove to me that you are right. Prove to me that you are more right than God. Nothing on earth would do it. Because Ryan didn't believe in or care about anything on earth.

Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.

I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.